LIBS in the French Alps

LIBS in the French Alps

I was skeptical.  Could a LIBS conference in the relatively remote town of Chamonix really be a good idea? I should not have been skeptical.  Thanks to Prof. Jin Yu and his team, the biannual International Conference on LIBS has been a smashing success, with nearly...
Novel, compact NIR and MIR spectrometers!

Novel, compact NIR and MIR spectrometers!

Back from vacation … hopefully you’ve been having a great summer.  I wanted to write today about the newest addition to our product lineup here at Flash Analysis.  The Spectral Engines’ NIR and MIR devices are tiny Fabry-Perot spectrometers that do an outsized job of...
Polypropylene Mechanical Properties with Raman

Polypropylene Mechanical Properties with Raman

Machine learning is able to reliably extract an incredible amount of data from both Raman and LIBS spectra.  One of the most interesting recent examples was published recently in Applied Spectroscopy , in which Julio Banquet-Terán and co-authors showed that a...
Analysis of Spectra

Analysis of Spectra

Today I was going back through my files and noted an “oldie but goodie” – a paper on background fitting for LIBS and Raman spectra by Igor Gornushkin and colleagues from 2003.  Specifically: I. B. Gornushkin, et al. “Automatic Correction of Continuum Background in...

Analysis of Spectra – Raman and LIBS

Today I was going back through my files and noted an “oldie but goodie” – a paper on background fitting for LIBS and Raman spectra by Igor Gornushkin and colleagues from 2003.  Specifically: I. B. Gornushkin, et al. “Automatic Correction of Continuum Background in...